Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-12-16
REPUBLICAN CLUBS.
A GREAT CONVENTION ASSEMBLED IN
CHICEERING HALL
Twelve Hundred Dssgatss-Wsst Vrginia's Little
Congressman DOwnsd, Amid Great Enth1sl-
asm, for the Temporary Chairmanship
Routine Business Transacted

NEW YORK, December l5.-Fiye stand
ards, bearing names of the States of the
Union, were scattered through Chickering
Hall at 1880 this morning, when the
doors were thrown open for the First Ma
tonal Republican Club Convention.
Under these standards the delegates from
the State will be seated. Twelve hundred
tickets have already been issued to dele
gates and still they come. The largest
delegations come from New York, Penn
sylvania, Ohio, Massachusetts, New Jer-
sey, Connecticut and Rhode Island. The
territories are here too. After II o'clock
the hall begun to fill rapidly, and at 20
minutes to II Joseph Poll, chairman Of
the Committee On Organization, called the
convention TO order.
The Rev. DR.. Macarthur offered prayer
He invoked the Divine guidance for the
convention, and prayed that the men, bers
might remember that nothing could be
right in politics, which was wrong in
morals; that he served his party best who
served his GCd best. Secretary Gleason
read the call for the convention. Jas. p
Foster, president of the Republican Club
OF New York, was introduced and vel.
coined the delegates.
The several committees met at four
o'clock Senator Chandler, OF New Hamp-
shire, was chosen chairman of the Commit
tee on Rules; G. S. Bachelor, of New York,
on Credentials; F. fl. Cruger, of Michigan,
on Permanent Convention Organization; j.
A. Kasson, of Iowa, Oh Resolutions, and
James Boyle, Of Ohio. on League Club
Organization.
The Committee on Rules and Order of
Business prepared the following report:
Fi-st-That the unit Of representation
when the roll call is demanded by the
chairmen Of five States or Territories shall
be that of the club; each club TO have one
vote, TO be determined by the majority Of
the delegates present.
SeCOnd--Each State shall have chair
man, who shall announce the vote OF the
various clubs Of the State, and object to a
demand for a roll call Of the clubs for that
State by any one of its clubs.
Third-The order of business shall be;
First-Reports Of committees.
SecOnd-Credentials
Third-Permanent organization.
Fourth-Extension of club organization.
Fifth-ResOiutiODs
No person shall he permitted to speak
on any pending question for more than five
minutes without the consent Of the con
yentiOn.
The other committees appointed sub
committee 10 report at . o'clock tomorrow
morning.
A meeting was held this evening at the
Cooper Union. Hon. John K. Lynch, Of
Mississippi, aud Hon. John Dalzell, o.!
PittsburG, addressed the assembly.
THE PURPOSE OF THE CONVENTION.
lie said:
"MC. Chairman and delegates to the
national conveaticu Of clubs: II is with
pleasure that extend TO the delegates, on
behalf of the Republican club of the city
of New York, a most hearty anG cordial
welcome to this city, and TO the duties and
work OF this convention. We arc told that
could the water he drained from the ocean
bed, the course OF the slave traders could he
traced by the skeletons of the slaves who
died az sea. We propose to dram that water
from the ocean Oh which Democracy iS now
sailing ard disclose those Democratic
skeletons Of discOrd, principle ard broken
faith, of corruption and intimidation at
the polls, and the last attempt to beguile
the people, under guise of = Congressional
message, by issuing campaign manifesto
on free trade, false III its utteranCes and
untrue in its conclusions. We propose to
organize, to go out and beyond the individ-
ual in order tha. we may work for some
end and some principle higher and broader
than the single man, for he who is selfshly
working for himself is danger to be
avoided. He will surely make ship
wreck OF every one who is attached to him.
Hence We have by common consent agreed
to that Just and only true rule that this
convention shall not name, recommend or
nominate any candidate for office, hut we
shall organize. We propose an organiza-
tiUn that shall disCOUntenanCe and put to
shame those personal attacks upon candi.
dates, whereby the private character and
home life are basely asSailed, and public
scandal for political ends unjustiy created.
We propose an organization that shall say
TO the saloon: BE We removed from poll
JlCS, lIpnIluSeI you WHO create PdupeiS
and insanity and criminals shall no longer
WELD The power Of government in this
land This, then, is the mission of this
convention"
OUR OWN NATHAN.
At the conclusion of his remarks, Daniel
J. Ryan, of Ohio, was nominated for tenn
porary chairman. Nathan Goff, of West
Virginia, was also placed in nomination.
Amid wild excitement and confusion
the call Of the roll was begun. Ryan was
elected by majority OF votes, the con-
ventiOn standing Ryan l59, Goff l54. The
vote for Ryan was then made unanimous.
Mr.. Pole then appointed Gen. Goff and
Col. John Atkinson to escort Juuge Ryan
to the Chair. He said
1--WE are here to-day to reorganize the
clubs OF the country into a permanent
organization. We are here to boom the
Republican party, and not any one in it.
We are here on a most important business
occasion. Believing we must get down to
business to at once, shall now ask your
pleasure" A number Of Secretaries were
then chosen, and Vice President for each